skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most digital money is scriptural. Cryptos aren’t.
Commenting on this to mark it in my feed for later reference. Well said!
This varies widely by country. The US does not have "database copyright" or "sweat of the brow" copyright. See Feist vs. Rural Telephone, which was about telephone directories. This restriction comes directly from the U.S. Constitution and would require a constitutional amendment to change.[1]

The UK and EU are different. The EU allows copyrights on databases.

[1] https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C8-3-...
Zero Defects Code – Chris Mason(1989) [pdf]
There’s a huge aftermarket for batteries and parts. Many companies will buy and refurbish battery packs as they are useful in many applications. A “dead” battery pack likely has many good cells and worth repairing.
It's possible.

I'm not worried about cheaters. We just need to lay out clear rules. You cannot look at the inputs or outputs in any way. You cannot log them. You cannot record them for future use. Either manually or in an automated way.

If someone cheats, they will be found out. Their contribution won't stand the test of time, no one will replicate those results with their method. And their performance on datasets that they cheated on will be astronomical compared to everything else.

FrontierMath is a great example of a failure in this space. By going closed, instead of using a license, they're created massive confusion. At first they told us that the benchmark was incredibly hard. And they showed reviewers subsets that were hard. Now, they're telling us that actually, 25% of the questions are easy. And 50% of the questions are pretty hard. But only a small fraction are what the reviewers saw.

Closed datasets aren't the answer. They're just unscientific nonsense. I refuse to even consider running on them.

We need test sets that are open for scrutiny. With licenses that prevent abuse. We can be very creative about the license. Like, you can only evaluate on this dataset once, and must preregister your evaluations.
True, but also irrelevant. Python is strongly, but dynamically typed. You cannot do the things you describe in Python, but it's still considered "untyped" in that framework because it performs its type checks at runtime.
> Why would you consider averages prices more relevant than the Neukundenpreise?

The answer is contained in the question: because it is the average price. As in the actual average price that is paid. It's pretty much tautological.

Just like the revenue of a company is the income from actual goods sold, not hypothetical income from the published catalog. And GDP for a country is measured with goods/services actually bought/sold/delivered, not hypothetical products and services that could be sold.

(That should be sufficient, but it also turns out that prices for new customers pretty much invariably are not sustainable prices, but prices made to entice customers from other companies. They tend to be unsustainable, more a marketing cost than a real price, and if all customers took advantage of them they would disappear. Just like new customers get much higher interest rates from banks than existing customers. Again: it's a customer acquisition cost, not an actual price).

> EEGs fault?

Prices are not a "fault". They just are. Prices, that is. And the EEG is only a small part of the overall price increase we've seen for electricity in Germany. Since the start of the Atomausstieg, prices more than doubled. Before the Atomausstieg, prices were decreasing for years.

And the correlation between percentage of intermittent renewables and higher electricity prices is pretty consistent throughout Europe.

> Also the EEG is not equivalent to the cost of the net zero transition.

This is true. The true cost is much, much higher, though specifics are not known, as was recently criticized by the auditors, the Bundesrechnungshof.

Cost up to now are somewhere between €300 - €700 billion, and we have achieved little to nothing. Replaced a reliable, cheap CO₂-free electricity source with an unreliable, expensive, CO₂-free electricity source.

And of course the future costs have been estimated to be somewhere between € 1.5 trillion and € 5 trillion. Insane.

Compared to the German Energiewende, Brexit was a smart move. And Brexit was one of the dumbest moves a country ever made.

> We need to approach net zero

And shutting off nuclear power did not bring us any closer to that goal. In fact, it moved us away from that goal and also made it much, much harder to ever achieve that goal. Because there is no feasible way of achieving net zero based on just intermittent renewables.

France has around 1/10th of our CO₂ emissions for electricity. Has had them for decades. With nuclear. For a fraction of the cost. With lower electricity prices.
IMO, there are only a few cases where the added network traversal make sense.

1. There's some benefit to writing the different parts of the system in different languages (e.g. Go and Python for AI/ML)

2. The teams are big enough that process boundaries start to form.

3. The packaging of some specific code is expensive. For example, the Playwright Docker image is huge so it makes sense to package and deploy it separately.

Otherwise, agreed, it just adds latency and complexity.
Automation is bad for you, but it's "good for business". The least they need you, the better it is.

I assume this is where 'automation' comes in, reduce dependence to the meatbags (us, humans)
That is true and therefore only a good measure in my friends and family circles.

Many of these characterstics will be shared among us (climate, roads, landscape, charging infrastructure etc).

Part of it is getting their thought processes away from "peak requirements" and into the direction of "average everyday" which for me is a more important measure.

I wouldn't recommend cars be advertised this way but person to person its quite useful.
But what we're doing to these models is literally censoring what they're saying - not doing.

I don't think that anyone has any problems with stopping random AIs when they're doing crimes (or more realistically the humans making them do that) - but if you're going to make the comparison to humans in good faith, it'd be a person standing behind you, punishing you when you say something offensive.
Fascinating observation from my perspective as someone who has not studied economics. But I assume that is also true of saffron, truffles, wooden pencils -- and maybe even smart phones?
You're on to one of the biggest controversies of all: were all the big things that happened (an almost infinite list of almost infinite badness) due to Stalin, or was it Lenin, or did it all go bad starting with Marx? Or the French Revolution? Much ink and much blood spilled over those questions. Animal Farm touches on it (Orwell was a socialist but hated Stalin). Solzhenitsyn came to the opposite conclusion: that the Gulag and the purges started with Lenin. I don't think it will ever be settled.
What is that KM unit? Are you measuring the capacity in distance? If yes, then the unit is wrong. It’s km, not KM.
Show HN: FlashMyPico – an on-line firmware distribution tool
I've made a tool that could help you develop and distribute your RP2040/RP2350 firmware [1, 2, 3]. While programming these chips can be as simple as copying a file onto a removable drive, I believe this process can be further improved with on-line hosting, verification and versioning features, the ability to update firmware on the go with your smartphone, build system integration, and more.

You can also use this tool to learn about electronics engineering topics by exploring existing firmware (you don't need to sign up to do this).

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/rp2040/

[2] https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/rp2350/

[3] https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-pico-2/
Offshore English is a concept to make the language more understandable to non-native speakers. Avoid rare words and idioms. Avoid everything that wouldn't be taught in foreign schools or common in your field. You won't get a Nobel prize in literature using it, but international colleagues will thank you.
The free market interpretation is that a competitor will make this information available as a differentiating point, if they believe it would make a competitive advantage compared to everyone just not doing it. And that, should no competitor do that, then it behooves any complainant consumer to simply start their own multibillion dollar car company that differentiates on that point.
Yeah it's essentially on a case by case basis. All the remote workers at this point have earned considerable trust and have more access than a typical college student does. I think I am one of only a couple that weren't required to be a post-graduate to apply, so there is at the very least a few years worth of opportunities to mess up the privilege before that trust is given. But yes, all the typical things you would imagine still obviously blocked (social media, adult content, etc)
I had a similar bad experience with religion growing up that left me very anti-organized religion. It wasn't until adulthood that I met people for whom religion appeared to be a positive developmental force on their personality. I am much more respectful of religious views in general now, even if I don't believe it myself.

Most religions really do center themselves on very useful concepts like mindfulness, gratitude, and helping others. But like anything, religions can be coopted by those with personality disorders to exercise their need for control, tribalistic exclusion, etc.
What I'm saying is that the argument "they're math and data, therefore what they say is safe" is not a valid one.
Here's my take.

One of my hidden superpower that I often see others are missing is navigating library code. Especially in new language.

I don't like reading docs. Very rarely docs are good. Usually docs are incomplete or outright wrong. So I never read them unless absolutely required. I just navigate library, skimming through its source code. Whether it's standard library or third-party library.

I failed this approach with Scala and it was main reason that I abandoned this language. Its collections were so absurdly overcomplicated, that I decided this language is doomed to collapse under its own weight. Apparently I wasn't very wrong.

Another failure with this approach is C/C++. For reasons that I kind of understand but don't approve, its standard library either hidden (so I can't just navigate to malloc implementation) or obfuscated with endless underscores (header template libraries), which makes it unreadable.

So it's not absolutely universal approach, but generally it works. And of course it requires "jump to definition" editor feature.
It persists because incompetently-managed cities and their sycophants need a convenient scapegoat for why they can't properly clean roads in the winter.
Agreed this sort of advice is standard - but many people don’t follow it because it’s boring.

One way to make this sort of advice “not boring” is to apply the advice to 90% of your net worth (or cash flow), but then give yourself permission to “gamble” with the other 10%.

For me, that has fulfilled my personal interest in playing around in the markets for fun while still building/growing a traditional “safe” portfolio at the same time.
The various AI agents seem to catch this fwiw. I prompted "check the following for errors" and got an appropriate response for this;

ChatGPT: The sentence has a minor issue with the term "kilowatts". Kilowatts measure power, not energy, so it should be "kilowatt-hours" (kWh) if you're referring to the energy capacity remaining in the battery. "

For all the negativity of AI i keep finding examples where it's very clear "you could do a much better job with less effort if you leaned on AI a little". Journalism especially.
Lithium ion batteries don’t usually have rare earth minerals. Some use rare minerals like cobalt but they are moving away from those chemistries.

It is the electric motors that use rare earths but sounds like companies are moving away from that.
You could contact them but honestly that probably wouldn't work very well. Things that might help: switch your settings from old reddit to new reddit, use new reddit to load a few pages, and then switch back. Also try using "newest" reddit at https://sh.reddit.com.
The field is now owned by Big Capital.

Democratization of AI was a joke.
Starbucks strike to expand to over 300 US stores on Christmas Eve, union says
Unless you are now involved in a lawsuit that asks for a hypothetical 50% of your income for using a tech very similar to their and they speculate its been stolen and not permitted by their license and even if you know you are going to win/or that it doesn't affect you still have to spend money on the lawyers fighting it.
The cost of storage space these days is about $0.01 per 100 megabytes.
I'm assuming they chose Micro-HDMI here so they could use the same part they use on the Pi 5.
I don't think you get a free pass for doing bad things if you also do good things. The US imposed domestic shortages for a decade following WWII to keep Europe fed while also rebuilding it; this doesn't somehow offset everything else we've done over the last 80 years.

China has done remarkable things for its citizens, much like the Soviet Union did. It did those things while doing terrible things, both to its own citizens and to those within its sphere of influence (looking, for example, at China's willingness to ignore atrocities in North Korea). This is a universal theme with country-level activity: there is no uniquely good country, only shades of (dis)reputability across history.

To tie it back to the original question: with enough perspective into global affairs, it's almost impossible to discern the West and non-West in terms of brutality towards civilians during conflicts. Differences in wealth and power are real, but are not immediately relevant to civilians being harmed with the same basic weapons (rifles) and techniques (privation, exposure, insecurity) that are present and readily accessible to every country on Earth.
This is because programming is not a work in a continuous solution space. Think in this way; you're almost guaranteed to introduce obvious bugs by randomly changing just a single bit/token. Assembler, compiler, stronger type system, etc etc all try to limit this by bringing a different view that is more coherent to human reasoning. But computation has an inherently emergent property which is hard to predict/prove at compile time (see Rice's theorem), so if you want safety guarantee by construction then this discreteness has to be much more visible.
> Fiat 500e
Maybe buy a Tesla next time?
"betrayed", "promised" - these are quite telling about the sense of entitlement these people have (rightly or wrongly).

The world doesn't owe you anything, even if you did a PhD in AI.

Sorry if you picked the wrong thing, but it's the same for anything at degree level.
If someone believed they will earn 2-5x better than in academia, with full freedom to work on whatever interests them, and no need to deliver value to the employer... Well, let's say "ok", we have all been young and naive, but if their advisors have not adjusted their expectations, they are at fault, maybe even fraudulent.

Even being in elite research groups at the most prestigious companies you are evaluated on product and company Impact, which has nothing to do with how groundbreaking your research is, how many awards it gets, or how many cite it. I had colleagues at Google Research bitter that I was getting promoted (doing research addressing product needs - and later publishing it, "systems" papers that are frowned upon by "true" researchers), while with their highly cited theoretical papers they would get a "meet expectations" type of perf eval and never a promotion.
NORAD's Santa Tracker began with a typo and a good sport
An outrageous idea: a society-level forever clinical trial
Do that at $BigCorp and Legal will eat you alive, if not fired.

Long ago I went through the company-approved process to link to SQLite and they had such a long list of caveats and concerns that we just gave up. It gave me a new understanding of how much legal risk a company takes when they use a third-party library, even if it's popular and the license is not copyleft.
There was a 2-headed calf here in Idaho. https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/15634
I have seen way more projects with very broken CMake integration than rust packages with broken cargo setup.

CMake is a pain.
Having someone you pay is actually key here (at least for me.) Never do I want to fix something more then when there's money on the line. I'm sure that getting lucky in finding a therapist that can understand you and provide a hint as to change your approach or bolster you when you're correct but unsure. Free advice can be perfectly correct, but when you're paying maybe you take it more seriously.
A lot of people will simply not do this, even if they know they should.

For this reason I think WFH is a massively more risky social experiment than most realize. It works for folks who were either already inclined to "go out and do things" or those who already had established social groups. We will see how this pans out in a generation or two.

Having to have everything scheduled weeks in advance is utterly exhausting and incredibly anxiety inducing to me. If I didn't already have friends I could do spontaneous things with, I'm not sure how I'd be able to have any sort of social life at all. I certainly am not alone in this, even if I'm a minority.
in my opinion the problem is not solved at all. It’s been temporarily fixed and the can kicked down the road, so to speak. Furthermore, uneducated consumers end up confused because they think the problem is solved, and will then be confused when they read a similar “BPA alternative X is bad for you” in 5 years. Basically it confuses the public and solves nothing.

Solving the problem for real might look like:

- permanently banning BPA and all similar classes of products by default, and only lifting a ban if a specific one is proven to be safe. Only allow very specific exceptions, like for single use packaging in the medical industry, etc.

- fund large grants and maybe even offer a massive cash prize to anyone that creatively invents an alternative to plastic for food or beverage use, that does not require lining the product with more chemicals (that’s what happens with cardboard food and drink containers today.

- short term, encourage people to use reusable glass containers with silicone sleeves (silicone has been proven pretty safe), or stainless steel containers. Offer businesses an incentive to allow customers take leftovers home in their own containers.
Exactly. They are good in the sweet spot when you can verify that they are correct, but you are not that good to do it yourself.

Basically StackOverflow but without the annoying mods?
Almost all leading AI chatbots show signs of cognitive decline
The AI Bias Before Christmas [video]
Are Japan and Korea not both high life expectancy but low birth rate. Along with a by other developed countries birth rates dropping while life expectancy is increasing?
When it's not clear whether you should trust someone, you should:

* Get the necessary background education to understand the subject

* Read what they are saying

* Determine the reasons for whether or not it is wholly, partially, or not at all logically and factually consistent

What you probably shouldn't do is shrug your shoulders, and cite a platitude like "Well, experts have been wrong before! I have no idea who we can trust!"

For heavily technical topics, unfortunately, this does require getting tens of thousands of hours of practice in the relevant field, so I can see why it may be less appealing than the lazy alternative.
Yes, it's the standard way if you want implicit compat with the base type, so you can pass a value of type `A` to a function expecting a `string`. An other name for this pattern is "branded types".
Start paying attention to the things that bog you down when working on code, and the things that your users (ought to) expect to be easy but that are inscrutably difficult to achieve with your existing codebase. Find high quality open source projects and study them. Read books (eg. Domain driven design [distilled]). Stay somewhere long enough to feel the impact of your own bad design decisions. Take some time occasionally to pause and reflect on what isn't working and could have been done better in hindsight. Consider whether you could have done anything differently earlier in the process to avoid needing hindsight at all.
Reminds me a bit of the UPS Flight 6 that crashed in 2010. Wasn't the cause of the fire, but the fire heated up the co-pilots oxygen system to the point he couldn't wear it and eventually succumbed to smoke hypoxia. Due to smoke in the cabin the pilot couldn't see his flight deck readouts or out the window and eventually crashed into the ground.
> "The Law of Supply and Demand" was unknown to the Romans

So was the law of gravity, but gravity still ruled their lives.

> whose economies worked in entirely different ways

The Law of Supply and Demand applies to all economic systems.
the physical conference itself is now an excuse for companies to throw lavish parties, but NeurIPS as a publication venue is still mainly for academics.

for research that translates directly to an industry setting, look someplace like KDD. venues like that are where data science/ML teams who do some research but are mainly product focused tend to publish.
On one hand I agree with you, if I can build the same software you can, I should be able to sell it all the same. On the other, if there's no copyright or similar, what stops theft of source code and an identical program with fresh branding?
While I suspect you’re right about newer cars because of galvanized steel etc, but I also wonder how much of the contrarian viewpoint is due to sampling bias. Maybe your Acura was just good luck? I’ve had a domestic wagon of similar vintage that went through many Midwest winters. The exhaust rusted off and so did the sub-frame leading me to offload it many years ago. We really need better data than our personal anecdotes to understand the problem.
Hi, younger programmer here who's first programming experience was Visual Studio and .NET (that's a lie my first programming experience was a decade earlier with yabasic and notepad but given that I only ran about three programs I'm loathe to count it) my tiny laptop struggled to run Visual Studio and I was working a lot in server admin so naturally started using vi. Vi came without any modern features and when I tried to move back to Vs code I hated it so much. The screen was so busy and every time I typed something I was distracted by 100 different suggestions, sometimes I would accidentally press a key and paste a load of code in I didn't need. By this time I had already gotten proficient at vi keybindings, got any information about an API I needed from scouring the documentation/manpages(please every one make a lot more manpages). I then decided to see how much I could strip back without really affecting productivity. Anyway a few months ago I switched off syntax highlighting and now other people's editors look like a mess to me. Anyway I love that I can program in any environment on any machine as long as a text editor is available. Makes me feel like I'm not beholden to Microsoft or jetbrains when they inevitably tighten the licenses and I think it makes me a better programmer because I have to read and think about the APIs I'm calling.

tl;dr modern ide's abstract you away from compilation pipelines and make you more reliant on intellisense than reading docs. Syntax highlighting is a psyop designed to kill the art.
Tragedy from a Swiss cheese failure - several small holes/failures all line up.
The issue of halon extinguishers versus oxygen-powered combustion producing many toxins while failing to extinguish is interesting - good that:

> Halon fire extinguishers are scheduled to be phased out of most commercial aircraft by the end of 2025.